spiny wrote:it sounds like something is trying to force low res and crashing when in hi.

Yes, this is what it does.

No hard disk on. Also my psu is recapped and works fine under load.The floppy drive started making funny noises thats why I hope maybe its just the floppy that failed.But still, maybe its the controller that gives this strange behavior. I guess I have to check all possible senarios.

I did find my custom made vga cables, both mono and multisync, and i have a crystal bright screen in low and hi res using those cables. It boots in 2 secs I guess thats because no disk drive found. I didn't have the time to unplug it, that will be done tomorrow.Menus are working, no disk icons but all seems to be ok!Now, using the adapter, the first thing that i have noticed is some noise on the screen and some very faint jail bars. It boots in hi res and after some seconds it reboots like forever. Also some glitches here and there.Pressing the push button constantly, it reboots at some point to low res and by that time it keeps on rebooting like before.

Jailbars, adjust the contrast. Or you could adjust the potentiometers, to get rid of it. I'd say green could be a possible offender from my own testing.

But the rebooting.. That should *not* happen. Checking my notes; could be a bad connection on the ATtiny's pins 4 and/or 8 (GND and +5V). Do you have a soldering iron? If so, could you try and re-flow those pins?

DarkLord wrote:Ube, there are *many* of us who are waiting for a new one...

Yepp. And I have *many* of them on my desk as of now. Just missing potentiometers. Been waiting for them for ages now. At least four weeks. They are marked to turn up by Wednesday, was hoping for this week..

ube wrote:Yepp. And I have *many* of them on my desk as of now. Just missing potentiometers. Been waiting for them for ages now. At least four weeks. They are marked to turn up by Wednesday, was hoping for this week..

Awesome.

Figured the reason for the delay was something like that. Keep up the good work.

What is the button for so it would specifically be good for Mega STe owners? You know what would be a nice edition, a PAL/NTSC switch, though I don't know how feasible that is. Or if it is even needed for VGA output.

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ube wrote:Mega computers, the monitor itself is in the way. With the external connector one can place a button on the side of the computer for easier reach.

PAL/NTSC: not feasible. At least not without adding extra hardware.

So.. version 1.2? Always thought it would have been nice if there had been a standard hardware/keyboard combination you could do to switch these older systems between the standard video format instead of messing around with different boot loaders and such.

On my Amiga 4000D there was a jumper on the motherboard for PAL/NTSC, and probably 70% of the games required me to switch it to PAL, so I left it there, even though I use a scan doubler that outputs to proper VGA now.

ube wrote:Ought to. If there’s syncs on the same pins. If it doesn’t, plug it into an ST, set it to low res and hold the button for 3 seconds, it’ll save low res as default at power on.

Finally got the VBXE home safe and sound. Sadly all I get from the Dell 2001FP when I plug it into the VBXE board is 'Can not display this mode'.

Now, for giggles, I plugged this adapter into the 130XE's VBXE port, with a VGA cable to the GBS-8220, then out to my VGA switch box, and to my monitor and I get a screen displayed! But it's dark and grainy. So not sure if the GBS-8220 is doing some more doubling on it, or what the deal is. I kind of thought the VBXE did output RGB at 15khz similar to the ST/Amiga.

I’ve decided on stop making my switches, mainly due to the fact that they do take too much of my time; I haven’t opened my DAW to make music for quite some while (mainly because my desk is full of switch components). I will however continue developing, there are some small adjustments/additions I’d like/need to add.

Therefore there will probably be some kits from time to time for sale; I’ve got quite the stock of DIN13s incoming and they seem to be more and more difficult to get a hold of, at least the ones marked “inline”, push connectors are plenty.

And, I’ll probably start a new Atari project or two. When the Swedish cold, long winter sets in.